Break!!

I'm so happy Thanksgiving break is here! Three whole days off school with nothing to do.....except my homework......and oboe practicing......and cooking various things.......awwwww man!!!

Sorry!

I just got Facebook a few days ago, and that's all I've been doing!!!

Yawn

Today was a really boring, average day. In band, my friend and I were wispering and out band director (who doesn't know either if our names) told us to pay attention. When class got out, my friend and I realized that was the most he's ever said to us at once! We reached a milestone!!!!

My birthday's tomorrow, I wonder what my friends will do to my locker..........

Party (again)

I had another family birthday party, it was pretty fun. There were 17 people, who pounded down an entire cake, five medium pizzas, and plates of chips, cheese and crackers. Here are the highlights:

First, my cousin's piece of cake dive bombed on the floor icing side down (of course).

Second, three of my cousins and I hung out in my room, listened to music, shot foam at each other, and drove each other crazy.

Third, I got 50 bucks and sold some Girl Scout cookies.

I totally love my iPod touch, all bittersweet feelings totally gone. I got two new apps today and passed the second moron test.

Papercut

I got a generic birthday card from my orthodontist's office today, and when I was attempting to open the envolope (I'm envolope-opening impaired), it gave me a monster papercut right on the knuckle.

It could have been karma. I do not like going to the orthodontist. I have actually counted how many times they've somehow told me mis-info or what they said would happen didn't, etc. (If you want to know, the current grand total is 11.)

My karma probably made that evil envolope give me that papercut......GRRRRRRR.

iPod Touch + B-day Party

I had my first of two family-only parties this weekend. My birthday is this coming Tuesday, so my mom sceduled both family parties for this weekend. Anyway, I got $70 in cash, which was WAY more than I ever would of thought, so I was pretty happy.

I took the $70 and another $150 I had and bought the third gen. iPod Touch this afternoon, and I totally love it. It's kind-of bittersweet though, because It's replaceing the 4th gen. Nano my parents bought for me. I don't want my parents to feel that they're not doing enough or that I don't like what they gave me, which I totally do and all.

The other wierd thing is the Touch feels like an imposter or something. I hope I get used to it, I probably will, maybe the feeling is just a combo of stress and school-work and overall life. I dunno.

Sorry!

Hey everyone! I'm sooooo very sorry I didn't get a post up yesterday, I got another headache (the 2nd in three days!) and fell asleep at seven o'clock!

I have a birthday party today. I'll tell you about the results later today if I have time!!!

Crash & Burn

Ok, get this. On Mythbusters last night, Jamie (is that spelled right??) and Adam were testing to see if everytime a car was driven off a cliff, it exploded. Sounds cool and totally probable right? Wrong.

You see, the explosion could be caused pretty much only by the gas tank, which in modern cars, is placed in a location where it is protected so the mythical explosion doesn't happen. Sad. So in testing, all they got was crunched cars (which are still pretty cool, but not as awesome as random explosions).

Then, Jamie and Adam strapped a gas tank to the fron of the car and ran it off a cliff. The result: a wickedly cool fireball and a charred, mangled car, but no explosions. At the end of the show, they rigged yet another car with explosives, pushed it off a cliff and detonated the explosives when it hit the ground, which is totally cheating, but still really cool.

Rushed

Hey everyone out there, I don't have much time today to chat, but I'll give you a brief summary of my day.

I made a vegetarian breakfast burrito (but it ended up more like a taco) in my Home Econmics/FACS class, got a horrid headache, and went to lie down in the nurses office, almost puked and went home. Then I took a nap and have been lazing around ever since.

I have a friend who wanted to be mentioned here. Her name is Caroline. She is very outgoing and easy to get along with.

I have got to go to bed before I pass out in from the computer. Bye!

Library Field Trip

I'm in a gifted (smarty-pants/nerd) English/Communication Arts class, and today all the gifted CA kids went to the public libary downtown. Only a gifted class would go to a library on a field trip (we have a reasearch project). The library (being downtown) isn't the safest place, so we were warned to be smart and observant. What I find halarious, is us being gifted are totally smartical, but we are all totally crazy, spontaneous and mental (in a crazy, sane way. For example, this one kid had a kazoo on the bus and was playing it randomly. No reason why, just cause). We had to be reminded to be smart!!

When we got to the library, we had a short tour, found partners, and were given permission to go wherever we wanted in the five story library (except the roof balcony and coffe shop. :-( sad.) So, there were around 105 hyper, crazy teenagers given free roam of a huge library to "research". Yeah, "research". I doubt most people did a lot of work, just hung out and slid down a huge stuffed cow in the juvenile literature section.

Then, 105 hyperactive teenagers (quite a number of us MUST have ADD) trooped three blocks and past a bus stop crowded with scary-looking people and wound up at a food court, and given free reign there too, for then next 45 minutes. I tried a veggie sushi roll (it was gross, I'm not a veggie person), and after everyone else at the table tried it, I placed some wasabi and ginger on top of a few remaining pieces, and my friend got two guys to each eat a piece. Cue the gagging and screaming!

Halarious. One of the best field trips ever.

Horrid Practice

Ok, todays band rehearsal was TERRIBLE. We were barely 10 minutes in to practicing, when our director told us the rehearsal was bad, as if the next half hour couldn't be any better, and as if we were all total failures. This particular director has directed for 17 years and said we were the most difficult group to control. Yeah, THAT'S supposed to make us feel good about ourselves.

There's this good song we are going to play at our concert in three weeks called Electricy, and it has some kick-butt awesome percussion parts, but the percussion is struggling with them 'cause, they're, well, challenging, which was the reason the director picked it in the first place. So today, the director said if the percussion didn't get better, he wouldn't let us play it at the concert. As if that's going to happen. That would take our already short concert down to only three songs. Yeah, right.

"Comic" Opera

There is no such thing as a comic opera. There is such a thing as an opera with funny tidbits but not a comic opera. A slightly funny opera in English has to be a million times better than an opera where the love-lorn characters both die of tuberculosis in Italian though.

I saw the HMS Pinafore today which my grandma wanted to see, so she dragged my mom along and I ended up going too. It takes place in 19th century England on the HMS Pinafore. Basically, Josefine is the capitans daughter, and she loves Ralph, a sailor. Ralph loves her too, but when he tells her, she declines because of their differene in class. Ralph almost kills himself when Josefine tells him she loves him, which ticks off her father, the capitan, who wants her to marry the Commander of the Navy, who's like three times older than her.

Then Buttercup, who is a fortune teller of sorts (and loves the capitan), tells everyone that when she was babysitting the capitan and Ralph, she got them mixed up, so Ralph is actually at the same class as Josefine, so then they get married and Buttercup marries the ex-capitan, and the Commander of the Navy marries his cousin.

Essentially, Josefine marries to Ralph, who is as old as her father, Buttercup marries the ex-capitan, who she babysat, and the Commander of the Navy marries his cousin, who was already related to him.

Ick.

Honor Band

Trying out for an honor band can easily make any calm, composed person turn in to a total basketcase. I play the oboe, and only two are accepted, but at least 10 audition. First, you have to get the music to play in the first place, practice it for months, and still not get it perfect. Next, you have to play scales (from memory of course). You are forced to memorize ten scales, but being the nature of pure evil judges, they only make you play three, so you essentially just worked your butt off for months memorizing to have to play the three hardest scales you still have trouble with. Then you have to play the actual piece and almost collapse on the spot from hyperventilation before the judge lets you go pass out in peace. After you are consious again, you must wait at least an hour or more for the results to be sent in, and even longer until they are finally made public. I was auditioning for my second time, and I GOT THE HIGHEST SPOT!!!!!!! Wahooo!! *faint*

Cheese Cannonballs

I saw this thing on Mythbusters the other day, where Kari, Grant and Tori were testing to see if cheese is a decent substitite for cannonballs. The story behind it is that in the 1800's, two South American countries navy's were fighting, and one side ran out of cannonballs. The ship's resourceful capitan ordered for cheese to be used as a substitute, and the myth says it actually worked! When it was tested, a special kind of hard, spanish cheese whose name I can't recall was actually able to peirce through a replica of a ship sail from that era. Wow. Before you know it, nuclear wars will be replaced with salami. "Watch out for the sausage bomb!!! AGGGGGG!!"